The From New York, this is Democracy Now.

My son, Milard, he was only five years old.

He was a cute boy, cool boy, funny boy.

Today we spend the hour looking at the devastating reality for Palestinians living under

Israeli rule. We'll speak with a Palestinian father whose five-year-old son

Milad died in a fiery bus crash on a school trip.

Abed Salama's quest to find out what happened to his boy was immediately

hindered because he was a Palestinian living on the wrong side of the Israeli

separation wall. Abed will join us along with the journalist Nathan Thrall, who just won a Pulitzer Prize for his book A Day in the Life of

Abed Salama, anatomy of a Jerusalem tragedy.

The aim of the book is to immerse people viscerally in the lives of Palestinians living on the other side of this wall and to make them feel and understand

what that life is like and one of the things that struck me more than anything as I was working on it was how much pain there is just

beneath the surface in every single Palestinian family.

All that and more coming up.

This is Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

In this special broadcast, we spend the hour with the Jerusalem-based journalist and writer Nathan Thrall.

He just won the Pulitzer Prize for his most recent book, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama,

anatomy of a Jerusalem tragedy, which tells the story of Israel's occupation of the West Bank through

one family's tragedy.

The book was published October 3rd last year, just four days before Israel launched its devastating assault on Gaza following

the Hamas attack on October 7th.

Today we re-air two interviews with Nathan Thrall, one just after he won the Pulitzer Prize this month,

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